Mastering Kotlin for Android 14 : Build Powerful Android Apps from Scratch Using Jetpack Libraries and Jetpack Compose

Mastering Kotlin for Android 14 Build Powerful Android Apps from Scratch Using Jetpack Libraries and Jetpack Compose

Accelerate your Android development journey by mastering the latest Kotlin techniques and libraries to build robust apps Key Features Apply best practices and industry-essential skills used by Google Developer Experts Find out how to publish, monitor, and improve your app metrics on the Google Play...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wangereka, Harun, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd [2024]
Edición:First edition
Materias:
Application software > Development.
Mobile apps > Development.
Java (Computer program language)
Computer software > Development.
Open source software.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811317406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and credits
  • Dedication
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Building Your App
  • Chapter 1: Get Started with Kotlin Android Development
  • Technical requirements
  • Introduction to Kotlin
  • Kotlin syntax, types, functions and classes
  • Creating a Kotlin project
  • Creating functions
  • Creating classes
  • Migrating from Java to Kotlin
  • Kotlin features for Android developers
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2: Creating Your First Android App
  • Technical requirements
  • Android Studio overview
  • Creating your Android app
  • Exploring the new project
  • Android Studio tips and tricks
  • Some useful shortcuts
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Jetpack Compose Layout Basics
  • Technical requirements
  • Introduction to Jetpack Compose
  • Declarative versus imperative UIs
  • Composable functions
  • Previews
  • Modifiers
  • Jetpack Compose layouts
  • Column
  • Row
  • Box
  • Lists
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Design with Material Design 3
  • Technical requirements
  • Material Design 3 and its features
  • Material components
  • Using Material Design in our apps
  • Adding Material Design 3 color schemes
  • Designing UIs for large screens and foldables
  • Using WindowSizeClass
  • Making our app accessible
  • Summary
  • Part 2: Using Advanced Features
  • Chapter 5: Architect Your App
  • Technical Requirements
  • Introduction to app architecture
  • Deep Diving into MVVM
  • How LazyColumn works
  • Benefits of LazyColumn
  • Creating a composable
  • Jetpack libraries
  • Dependency injection
  • Migrating to Kotlin Gradle DSL and using version catalogs
  • Migrating our app to Kotlin Gradle DSL
  • Using a versions catalog
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6: Network Calls with Kotlin Coroutines
  • Technical requirements
  • Setting up Retrofit
  • Introduction to Kotlin coroutines
  • Coroutine basics.
  • Using Kotlin coroutines for network calls
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7: Navigating within Your App
  • Technical requirements
  • Jetpack Navigation overview
  • Navigating to Compose destinations
  • Passing arguments to destinations
  • Navigation in foldables and large screens
  • Creating and using the resizable emulator
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Persisting Data Locally and Doing Background Work
  • Technical requirements
  • Saving and reading data from a local database
  • Handling updates and migrations in the Room database
  • Using WorkManager to schedule background tasks
  • Testing your workers
  • Summary
  • Chapter 9: Runtime Permissions
  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding runtime permissions
  • Requesting permissions at runtime
  • Summary
  • Part 3: Code Analysis and Tests
  • Chapter 10: Debugging Your App
  • Technical requirements
  • General debugging tips and tricks
  • Logcat
  • Stack traces
  • Breakpoints
  • Detecting memory leaks with LeakCanary
  • Inspecting network requests with Chucker
  • Using App Inspection
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11: Enhancing Code Quality
  • Technical requirements
  • Mastering Kotlin style and best practices
  • Coding conventions
  • Null safety
  • Data classes
  • Extensions functions
  • Type inference
  • Collections
  • Sealed classes and interfaces
  • Formatting
  • Functional programming
  • Coroutines
  • The when statements
  • Classes and functions
  • Using Ktlint for static analysis
  • Detecting code smells with detekt
  • Setting up detekt
  • Customizing detekt
  • Summary
  • Chapter 12: Testing Your App
  • Technical requirements
  • Importance of testing
  • Testing the network and database layers
  • Testing the network layer
  • Testing the database layer
  • Testing our ViewModels
  • Adding UI tests to our composables
  • Summary
  • Part 4: Publishing Your App
  • Chapter 13: Publishing Your App
  • Technical requirements.
  • Preparing our app for release
  • Add analytics to your app
  • Add crash reporting to your app
  • Turn off logging and debugging
  • Internationalize and localize your app
  • Improve error messages
  • Test your app on different devices
  • Provide proper feedback channels
  • Reduce the size of your app
  • Use the Android App Bundle
  • Enable minification and obfuscation
  • Releasing our app to the Google Play Store
  • Creating our first release
  • An overview of Google Play Store policies
  • Summary
  • Chapter 14: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
  • Technical requirements
  • Setting up GitHub Actions
  • Benefits of CI/CD
  • How CI/CD works
  • Setting up GitHub Actions
  • Running lint checks and tests on GitHub Actions
  • Deploying to Play Store using GitHub Actions
  • Summary
  • Chapter 15: Improving Your App
  • Technical requirements
  • Using Firebase Crashlytics to detect crashes
  • Setting up Google Analytics
  • Improving app engagement with Firebase Messaging
  • Securing your app
  • Summary
  • Index
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